Category News

Climate Change Impact, News

More Than 6 Million Displaced as Conflict and Climate Disasters Grip Eastern Africa

More than 6.2 million people were internally displaced across Eastern Africa in 2025, as armed conflict and climate-related disasters combined to deepen humanitarian pressures across the region, according to a new assessment by the Intergovernmental Authority on Development’s Climate Prediction and…

Vivek Saini
September 8, 2026

El Nino, News

El Niño Is Gathering Strength. India Has Reason to Watch Closely

The Pacific Ocean may seem far removed from our everyday lives, but what happens there can eventually show up in our kitchens, our cities, and even our electricity bills. Right now, scientists are watching the ocean closely as El Niño,…

Aayushi Gour
September 7, 2026

Air Pollution, News

How Stubble Burning Spreads Black Carbon Across North India

Crop-residue burning can become a dominant source of black carbon pollution in parts of North India during the post-monsoon season, according to a new study by researchers from IIT Delhi. Real-time measurements from an agricultural site in rural Punjab found…

Vivek Saini
September 7, 2026

Global Warming, News

1.8°C Global Warming: UNEP’s Best-Case Peak Explained

For years, 1.5°C has been treated as the line the world must not cross. The temperature limit, central to the 2015 Paris Agreement, was never meant to suggest that everything below it would be safe. Rather, it represented an important…

Aayushi Gour
September 5, 2026

El Nino, News

Drought, Then Deluge? Sri Lanka’s El Niño Risk Grows

Sri Lanka is entering a critical phase of the 2026 El Niño event, with the country potentially facing a shift from the water shortages and dry conditions experienced in recent months to above-normal rainfall and flooding risks later this year(October-November),…

CFC Sri Lanka
September 3, 2026

Biodiversity, News

Soil Biodiversity Loss Threatens Healthy Soils, FAO Warns

The loss of biodiversity beneath the Earth’s surface has emerged as one of the world’s major threats to healthy soils, according to a new global assessment by the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (FAO). The Status of…

Vivek Saini
September 3, 2026

Environment, News

Not Empty Land: Why India’s Decades-Old ‘Wasteland’ Label Is Facing an Ecological Reckoning

For generations, land without dense vegetation has often been viewed as land without much value. Grasslands, scrublands, deserts and ravines have frequently been grouped under the broad and dismissive label of “wasteland”. But India is now taking steps to change…

Aayushi Gour
September 2, 2026

Climate Change Impact, News

Warm Nights Drove India’s Hottest August Since Records Began in 1901

India recorded its warmest August since temperature records began in 1901, with the country’s average mean temperature reaching 28.01°C, or 0.67°C above the 1991-2020 average. The record-breaking month came despite August being one of the wettest months of the southwest…

Vivek Saini
September 1, 2026

Natural Disasters, News

No Rain, No Warning: How a Silent Mountain Collapse Triggered Nepal’s Deadly Torrent

A devastating flash flood in Nepal’s Rasuwa district has exposed a dangerous convergence of climate change, unstable glaciers and seismic activity in the Himalayas. What initially appeared to be a conventional flood is now being investigated as a complex chain…

Aayushi Gour
August 31, 2026

Conservation, News

Breeding Corals on Land: How Nilaveli’s New Lab Aims to Save Sri Lanka’s Dying Reefs

Under the national initiative to protect Sri Lanka’s coastal and marine ecosystems, the exceptional Coral Conservation Centre and Laboratory complex currently being established in Nilaveli, Trincomalee, was formally inspected by the Deputy Minister of Environment, Anton Jayakody, on August 25.…

CFC Sri Lanka
August 31, 2026